View your film early in the semester, keeping in mind that reserve videos must be returned in five days and overdue fines add up quickly ($20 after three days).
If your film is checked out, check with the library staff to see if another library has a copy of your film.
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Prepare you paper:
by coming up with a topic, developing your thesis and creating an argument. View this website by Dartmouth University for tips on how to write an academic paper
Recommended Reference Tools in the Library's Collection
Database of ebook and digial on line documentaires: Films on Demand is a web-based digital video service streaming educational titles in dozens of subject areas. EBSCO E-Books Collections contains e-books on many academic subjects. Every word in every book is searchable and users can preview the e-books online and can check out the book for a specified amount of time. Oxford Reference offers access to dictionaries, language reference tools, and subject reference tools from multiple disciplines. Great resource for background information or to get started when researching a new topic
View a tutorial on how to use Oxford Reference Oxford Scholarship online access to thousands of academic monographs, in 20 subject areas across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.
Anthropology Plus An extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present. Bibliography of Asian Studies contains over 680,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. Center for Research Libraries acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources from a global network of sources. Most of the materials acquired are from outside the United States, and many are from the emerging regions of the world: Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, eHRAF World Cultures A systematically organized collection of thousands of full-text books and articles on cultures from all regions of the world; provides information on particular cultures, ethnic groups, or immigrant groups, their beliefs and superstitions, or subjects such as political structure, architecture, kinship units, or settlement patterns. The information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups. (Video Tutorial on how to search eHRAF) Electronic Journal Center full text of 6000+ research journals. Film and Television Literature Index is an index to film and television literature Historical Abstracts contains references about the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada) Humanities International Complete provides full text journals, books and other published sources from around the world. JSTOR Collections holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s.
Books and media for the Southeast Asia project can be located in the UA library catalog using keywords or subject headings. Search keywords by topic, time period, places, people, or event.In addition, you can limit your results by Audio Visual materials.
If you cannot locate materials through the UA Library catalog, you can search the OhioLink Central Catalog
View a tipsheet: Using Ohiolink Central Catalog
For example:
Vietnam and women
Cambodia and colonial rule
Pol Pot and killing fields
Dien Bein Phu
Thailand and religion and 20th century
Southeast Asia Countries (Search by subject headings or keywords)
The books on these countries can be located on the Library shelves by the call number DS
Brunei
Burma (Myanmar)
Cambodia
Laos
East Malaysia
East Timor
India-( Only Andaman, Nicobar islands and Eastern Bangladesh and the Seven Sister States)
Indonesia
Peninsular Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
Spanish East Indies (New Guinea, Palau, Guam, and Northern Mariana Islands)
Thailand
Vietnam
Browse the Shelves by Call Number:
BL (Religion and mythology)
BP (Islam)
BQ (Buddhism)
DS (Asia)
GT 31 -3400 (Clothing, Folklore, Customs)
HM (Sociology)
HN (Social History)
HQ 1500-1600 (Women-Asia)
N 7344 (Art)
TX 724 (Food)
UA (Military and Weapons)
Film Project
Table of Contents
Plan Ahead and Start Early
Recommended Reference Tools in the Library's Collection
Books in the library's collection:
Ref BD 21 .O97 2011 Oxford handbook of world philosophyRef BL 74 .R36 2010 Religion and everyday life and culture
Ref D 9 .W68 2011 World history encyclopedia
Ref DS 4 .L48 2002 Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
DS 12 .G74 2010 Great empire of Asia
Ref DS 12 .H5 2004 Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian civilizations
Ref DS 34 .D35 2007 Daily lives of civilians in wartime Asia: from Taiping Rebellion to the Vietnam War
DS 502 H53 East and Southeast Asia
DS 524 .S68 2004 Southeast Asia: a historical encyclopedia, from Angkor Wat to East Timor
DS 525 .S27 2013 Southeast Asia : past and present
DS 556.8 .G86 2014 Rice Wars in colonial Vietnam
DS 557.8.M9 A44 2012 My Lai : an American atrocity in the Vietnam War
E183.8.L3 R87 2012 Before the quagmire : American intervention in Laos, 1954-1961
E 745 .M3 M2813 2013 MacArthur in Asia : the general and his staff in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea
Ref G 1030.L6 2013 Atlas of military history: an around-the-world survey of warfare through the ages
Ref GN 625 .W47 2009 Encyclopedia of the peoples of Asia and Oceania
Ref GN 333 .W67 2009 Worldmark Encyclopedia of culture and daily life (print and online)
GN 635.S58 W46 2011 The peoples of Southeast Asia Today: ethnography, ethnology and change in a complex region
Ref GT 2690 .65 2013 Marriage customs of the world : an encyclopedia of dating customs and wedding traditions
Ref GT 507 .E535 2013 Encyclopedia of national dress : traditional clothing around the world
Ref GT 2850 .F666 2011 Food cultures of the world encyclopedia
Ref HM 626 .C843 2012 Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia and Africa
Audiovisual in the library
B128.C8 C66 2005 DVD Confucius:words of wisdomBL1033 .E226 2006x DVD Eastern philosophy
BP 75 L54 2013 Life of Muhammad
BP 161.3 I57 2002 DVD Inside Islam
DS554.83.P65 P65 2006 DVD Pol Pot: secret killer
DS554.83.S255 E54 2011 DVD Enemies of the People (2 disc set)
DS 557.7 .B38 2005 DVD Battleground Vietnam: war in the jungle (5 volume set)
DS 557.7 .B38 2010 DVD Battlefield Vietnam: From Dien Bein Phu to Peace with Honor (3 volume set)
DS 557.8 .T4 B38 2010 DVD Battlefield Vietnam: Tet (3 volume set)
BQ882. B833 2012 DVD Buddha : the story of Siddhartha
DS557.7 I57 2008 DVD Inside the Vietnam War
Online books and documentaries:
Database of ebook and digial on line documentaires:
Films on Demand is a web-based digital video service streaming educational titles in dozens of subject areas.
EBSCO E-Books Collections contains e-books on many academic subjects. Every word in every book is searchable and users can preview the e-books online and can check out the book for a specified amount of time.
Oxford Reference offers access to dictionaries, language reference tools, and subject reference tools from multiple disciplines. Great resource for background information or to get started when researching a new topic
View a tutorial on how to use Oxford Reference
Oxford Scholarship online access to thousands of academic monographs, in 20 subject areas across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.
Suggested Titles:
Asian religions : a cultural perspective
Black April : the fall of South Vietnam, 1973-1975
Disaster at Dien Bien Phu
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: a political, social and military history (on-line book)
Grove encyclopedia of Islamic art and architecture (on-line reference book)
A history of Myanmar since ancient times : traditions and transformations
history of Southeast Asia : critical crossroads
Java, Indonesia and Islam (on-line book)
Indonesia at the crossroad (on-line documentary)
Journey into Islamic Southeast Asia (on-line Documentary)
Krakatoa (on-line documentary)
Lapham's raiders : guerrillas in the Philippines, 1942-1945 (on-line book)
Opening the eyes: deciphering the history of the Khmer empire (on-line documentary)
Thailand : king, combat, and Ad Karabao (on-line documentary)
Vietnam war from start to finish (on-line Documentary)
Voices of Southeast Asia : essential readings from antiquity to the present
Online Journals:
E- Journal Finder : Access a list of history journals accessible from a variety of databasesAsia Studies Review
Film and History : an interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television studies
Historian
History of the Family
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Journal of World History
Positions: East Asia cultures critique
Sojourn: Journal of Social issues in Southeast Asia
War in History
Recommended Databases:
Anthropology Plus An extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.Bibliography of Asian Studies contains over 680,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
Center for Research Libraries acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources from a global network of sources. Most of the materials acquired are from outside the United States, and many are from the emerging regions of the world: Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia,
eHRAF World Cultures A systematically organized collection of thousands of full-text books and articles on cultures from all regions of the world; provides information on particular cultures, ethnic groups, or immigrant groups, their beliefs and superstitions, or subjects such as political structure, architecture, kinship units, or settlement patterns. The information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups. (Video Tutorial on how to search eHRAF)
Electronic Journal Center full text of 6000+ research journals.
Film and Television Literature Index is an index to film and television literature
Historical Abstracts contains references about the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada)
Humanities International Complete provides full text journals, books and other published sources from around the world.
JSTOR Collections holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s.
Recommended Websites:
Asia History About.comCambodia: Country Studies
Cambodia Genocide Program
CIA World fact book by country
Southeast Asia Digital Library
Thailand: Country Studies
Finding Books & Media
Books and media for the Southeast Asia project can be located in the UA library catalog using keywords or subject headings. Search keywords by topic, time period, places, people, or event.In addition, you can limit your results by Audio Visual materials.If you cannot locate materials through the UA Library catalog, you can search the OhioLink Central Catalog
View a tipsheet: Using Ohiolink Central Catalog
For example:
Southeast Asia Countries (Search by subject headings or keywords)
The books on these countries can be located on the Library shelves by the call number DS
Brunei
Burma (Myanmar)
Cambodia
Laos
East Malaysia
East Timor
India-( Only Andaman, Nicobar islands and Eastern Bangladesh and the Seven Sister States)
Indonesia
Peninsular Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
Spanish East Indies (New Guinea, Palau, Guam, and Northern Mariana Islands)
Thailand
Vietnam
Browse the Shelves by Call Number:
BL (Religion and mythology)
BP (Islam)
BQ (Buddhism)
DS (Asia)
GT 31 -3400 (Clothing, Folklore, Customs)
HM (Sociology)
HN (Social History)
HQ 1500-1600 (Women-Asia)
N 7344 (Art)
TX 724 (Food)
UA (Military and Weapons)
Document Your Sources
The Smucker Learning Center's documents and informationStyle Guides in the Library's collection:
Ready Reference LB2369 .G53 2009 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Ready Reference BF76.7 .P83 2010 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
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